Shapiro: The announcement that Marlowe was a co-author of Shakespeare in Henry VI. smells more of sale techniques than scholarship.

James Shapiro

Nov.21, 2016 on the occasion of James Shapiro visit and speech in Louisville, KY I read in "Insider Louisville“ that for Shapiro it is unquestioned that "early and late Shakespeare are co-authored plays with other writers!" Shapiro, however doesn't buy the Marlowe-Shakespeare Co-Author-Story.: "Spending years and years and invest hundreds of thousands, if not millions, in a new OUP (Oxford University Press - OUP) edition of Shakespeare” OUP had to come out with some splashy announcement that Marlowe was a co-author of Shakespeare in Henry VI.: This announcement smells more of sale techniques than scholarship.Is the Shapiro "sales technique-theory" really the bigger and more interesting story behind the Marlowe/Shakespeare co-authorship?....."a lot of that noise will be questioned by the scholarly community when we actually get our hands on the evidence.Shapiro reveals another "interesting story". He received an advanced copy of the new OUP edition, says there is another bombshell awaiting readers. “This new edition pretty radically re-orders the ways Shakespeare’s plays were written.”Shapiro claims that “behind each of these favorite Shakespeare controversies“ is a bigger and more interesting story,”

For Shapiro I predict that the upcoming next Shakespeare controversy also doesn 't relate in any way to a non existent authorship issue.